“Is he sort of like a cross?” inquired Betty after a moment.
“Right,” said Uncle Henry. “Put him in with pebbles.”
This shows how to find and draw the swan the way the children and Uncle Henry did.
“Now the dragon, Uncle Hen!” urged Peter.
“Are you sure,” said Uncle Henry, “that you promise not to have any bad dreams about the dragon if I show him to you before you go to bed?”
“Sure!” chorused the Society of Star-Gazers.
“Well,” said Uncle Henry, “the dragon is very terrible, but he is afraid of bears, so he is squirming away as fast as he can from them. He is wriggling a little faster too, because Ursa Major is on one side of him and Ursa Minor on the other. Draw a line through the stars in the tips of the swan’s wings, back toward the head of the bear-driver, and you’ll find the dragon’s head about halfway. ([5]) It’s a little triangle of stars, and from that the dragon’s body winds around the little bear’s body and down above the big bear’s back.”
“I see all of him!” exclaimed Paul.